A small update for those interested, new version of kicad (BZR4003) was released just a few days ago. Since Dave's videos they did a few releases and a lot of small improvements to the user interface and it now includes an option to turn on middle mouse button panning among the other things. Libraries have been extended and improved as well. Annoying component-footprint matching functionality still there, but at least they started adding defaults and better footprint selection filters.